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Sonar collects a maximum of measures in an automated manner but this is sometimes not possible: information is not available for collection, measure is computed by a human, etc. Whatever the reason, Sonar provides a service to inject those measures manually and benefit from other services (Dashboard, TimeMachine, etc.): the Manual Measures service. The so-entered metrics are going to be picked during the next analysis of the project and be converted to "normal" measures.

This functionality has been greatly improved in Sonar 2.10.

Managing Manual Metrics

As for automated collected measures, a manual measure is collected on metric. The first thing is therefore to create the metric you want to save your measure against. In order to do so, sign in to Sonar, click on configuration at the top right of the page and choose Manual Metrics entry in the left menu:

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